Sagas

Margaret Kaine / Ribbon of Moonlight

   When her beloved grandfather dies in 1958, Polly Merton is forced to share her home with a woman she scarcely knows: the mother who abandoned her. Sadie Merton, glamorous and selfish, has her own set of morals and Polly is appalled by her...

Rebecca Dean / Enemies of the Heart

 A sweeping epic of love, desire and betrayal. The perfect read for fans of THE CROWN.June 1909, in a large Berlin mansion, cousins Zelda and Vicky are about to meet brothers Berthold and Josef for the first time - an evening that will alter the...

Duncan Sprott / The House of the Eagle

    "The House of the Eagle" begins Duncan Sprott's "Ptolemies Quartet", an epic and ingenious restoration of the dark and glittering story of ancient Alexandria and the Greek Pharaohs of Egypt, whose extraordinary dynasty spans twelve...

Catherine Law / Map of Stars

   'A touching tale of star-crossed lovers' New magazine Book of the Week. A tear-jerking love story for fans of Kathryn Hughes and Leah FlemingKent, 1939. Eliza is to be married to Nicholas, her companion since she was a child. But when the...

James Mitchell / Indian Summer

    The triumphant arrival of one of the richest men in England with an exquisitely beautiful woman on either arm causes a flurry of excitement. From the creator of 'When the Boat Comes In'.     All of our books are second...

Nancy Carson / Poppy's Dilemma

   A compelling tale of one girl's brave escape from a world of poverty in her search for true love.Is true love worth risking everything for?Sixteen-year-old Poppy Silk is one of the navvy community - a group of poor, rough-living men who...

Libby Purves / A Free Woman

   Sarah Penn and Maggie Reave are sisters, as different as a tabby and a tiger. Sarah has married kind, reliable Leo and settled contentedly into small-town life. Maggie, light-hearted and footloose, has spent fifteen years drifting round the...

Neel Mukherjee / The Lives of Others

 Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardWinner of the Encore AwardShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted for the IMPAC PrizeCalcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become...

Jessica Blair / The Long Way Home

    Lydia Middleton faces a bright future, secure in the knowledge that her childhood sweetheart, David Drayton, will one day be her husband. Their parents heartily approve of a match between Whitby's foremost ship-owning families. But then...

Rosie Goodwin / Mothering Sunday

   If you love Dilly Court, you'll love Sunday Times Bestseller Rosie Goodwin.ALL SHE WANTS IS SOMEONE TO CALL HER OWN1884, Nuneaton.Fourteen-year-old Sunday Small has never lived outside the Nuneaton workhouse. The regime is cruel, and if it...

Anna Jacobs / Cinnamon Gardens

   Now that Nell's three sons are in work, she's ready to build a new life for herself. She's been left a house in England by an elderly aunt and decides to leave Australia for a while.But her house on Peppercorn Street isn't fit to live in...

Xavier Herbert / Capricornia

   A saga of life in the Northern Territories and the clash of white and Aborigine cultures - one of Australia's all-time best-selling novels and an inspiration for Baz Luhrmann's lavish film `AUSTRALIA'.Capricornia has been described as one...

Elizabeth Waite / Second Chance

    Barbara's first chance comes in 1945. A barrister's daughter, she runs away to marry her sailor sweetheart in secret, ignoring her parent's disapproval. When the marriage falls violently apart, she returns home and tries to rebuild her...

Barbara Taylor Bradford / The Cavendon Luck

   As the clouds of war gather over Cavendon Hall, the next generation must step forward...The great house of Cavendon Hall has stood on the Yorkshire moors for centuries. Two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them,...

Nora Roberts / Chesapeake Blue

   The first ten years of Seth Quinn's life were a prison of fear and neglect - until he was rescued by the Quinns: father Ray, and hot-blooded brothers Phillip, Ethan and Cameron.Now an adult and successful artist, Seth returns home to...

Winston Graham / Warleggan

   Warleggan is the fourth novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1792. Ross plunges into a highly speculative mining venture which threatens not only...

Dilly Court / Tilly True

   'I ain't always going to be poor, I made me mind up to that.'Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True is forced to return home. But Tilly is determined to make something of her life and, rather...

Pat Conroy / South of Broad

   Leopold Bloom King is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, a former nun, is the high school principal and a respected Joyce scholar. He has had an unremarkable, happy family life.But...

Rebecca Dean / Wallis

   Two lovers. Two very different lives.One future together that will change history.When debutante Wallis Simpson is growing up, she devotes her teenage daydreams to one man, the future King of England, Prince Edward. But it's Pamela Holtby,...

Catherine Dunne / Another Kind of Life

    Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle class parents, has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Mary and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling...

Linda Finlay / The Flower Seller

   `Sure to delight her ever-growing legion of fans' Dilly CourtA charming and evocative tale of family and fortune from the queen of West Country saga, Linda Finlay.Isabella Carrington has been brought up in a life of privilege in London. Her...

Margaret Dickinson / Fairfield Hall

   A compelling saga from Margaret Dickinson, Fairfield Hall charts the changing fortunes of Annabel Constantine, in the devastating lead up to the First World War.Ruthlessly ambitious Ambrose Constantine is determined that his daughter,...

Julia Stoneham / Muddy Boots and Silk Stockings

   England, 1943. The country is at war With so many men away fighting, it is the women left behind who must keep the country going, and when Alice Todd is abandoned by her husband, she must find a means to provide for herself and her...

Kay Brellend / The Family

   The follow-up novel to the hugely successful debutTHE STREETIn this dank corner of town, you have to keep your friends close and your enemies closer - even if those enemies are your family.Jimmy Wild saunters around the streets of Campbell...

Bryce Courtenay / Jessica

    'A superb storyteller ... it is impossible not to be impressed by Courtenay's talents' - The Times JESSICA is based on the real life of a remarkable young Australian woman who defied the conventions of her time. She had a stubborn...

Stefan Merrill Block / The Storm at the Door

   Just outside Boston, in 1963, Frederick Merrill found himself a patient in the country's premiere mental hospital, a world of structured authority and absolute control - a forced regression to a simpler time even as the pace of the outside...

Rosie Goodwin / The Maid's Courage

    Ginny is devastated by the death of her mother, her two little brothers and her sister - but her father is destroyed by the loss. After a series of drunken mistakes, her father is imprisoned for murder, and Ginny and her little brother...

Sally Worboyes / Keep on Dancing

    Rosie Curtis is devastated when her brother Tommy is viciously murdered after dabbling in the criminal underworld. Not only is her carefree existence suddenly over but, without Tommy's support, her dreams of becoming a dancer are...

Nancy Carson / The Railway Girl

   Only tragedy can save her...Lucy Piddock meets Arthur Goodrich, solid, kind and dependable; a stonemason by trade working in his father's Black Country business. Arthur seems to be the ideal match, but he lights no flame in Lucy's heart...

Mira Stout / One Thousand Chestnut Trees

   An epic tale of an enigmatic land - Korea - and one woman's search for her past.Uncle Hong-do arrives in Vermont from Korea to see the sister he has never met, a concert violinist long settled in America. His colourful visit turns his...

Patricia Gaffney / Circle of Three

   A wise, emotional, but wholly unsentimental novel of three generations of women, and the changes they face when one of them is unexpectedly widowed. Through the interconnected lives of three generations of women in a small town in rural...

Elizabeth Lord / The Flower Girl

    Since her stevedore father's death, Emma Beech has been the main bread-winner of her family, making a living selling paper flowers to the theatre crowds in the West-End. They make just enough to keep a roof over their heads, especially...

Josephine Cox / Her Father's Sins

    Queenie seemed born to suffer. Her mam died giving birth to her, her drunken father George Kenney ignored her unless he was cursing her, and only beloved Auntie Biddy provided an anchor for the little girl. Growing up in post-war...

Dee Williams / Ellie of Elmleigh Square

   Ellie Walsh lives in a battlefield. Her out-of-work father, selfish sisters and violent, bitter mother, Ruby , are constantly fighting - and Ellie is always caught in the crossfire. So when a charming customer, Leonard Kent, comes into the...

Anne Fine / All Bones And Lies

   Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen. He holds down a responsible job for the council. He visits his aged mother Nora, shops for her, cooks for her, and listens to her grumbles. He also keeps in touch with his sister Dilys, long estranged...

Maggie Sullivan / Christmas on Coronation Street

 A wonderful Christmas gift full of nostalgia and charm, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love Fiction set in Wartime.Elsie Grimshaw lives in one of the worst streets in Weatherfield and is desperate to escape from life at home...

Ruby Jackson / A Christmas Gift

 The third in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn.As the daughter of the local cinema manager, Sally Brewer has always dreamed of stardom. When she gets offered a...

Josephine Cox / A Woman's Fortune

 The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Josephine Cox - the master storyteller.With her family's fate resting on her shoulders, Evie learns her lessons in life fast. It's going to take a woman's courage to find a new beginning...One...

Anna Jacobs / In Search of Hope

   An unexpected inheritance from her grandmother offers Libby Pulford the opportunity to escape her abusive marriage and return to her Lancashire roots with her young son Ned. But her domineering husband Steven won't let her go so easily. She...

Erica James / Coming Home to Island House

 From Erica James, bestselling author of Summer at the Lake, comes an enchanting tale of one family coming together and finding their way.It's the summer of 1939, and after touring an unsettled Europe to promote her latest book, Romily Temple...

Kitty Neale / A Family Scandal

 A gritty and emotional family drama, from the Sunday Times bestseller. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries and Katie Flynn.**You can never leave a bad man behind...Mavis Pugh has had a hard life. Despised and abused throughout her teenage years, she...

Anna Jacobs / An Independent Woman

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Jessica Blair / In The Silence Of The Snow

 French-born Marie Gabin forms a friendship with Veronica Attwood in their final two years at school, but this is tested when Marie is forced to disclose a secret to her friend. In the shadow of this revelation, the girls grow up on a country estate...

Katie King / The Evacuee Christmas

 A heart-warming story of friendship and family during the first Christmas of World War Two.Autumn 1939 and London prepares to evacuate its young. In No 5 Jubilee Street, Bermondsey, ten-year-old Connie is determined to show her parents that she's a...

Patricia Harman / The Midwife of Hope River

 As a midwife working in rural poverty during the Depression, Patience Murphy's only solace is her gift: the chance to escort mothers through the challenges of childbirth. Just beginning, she takes on the jobs no one else wants: those most in...

Josephine Cox / A Family Secret

 The new No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the master storyteller, Josephine Cox.Family secrets can weigh the heaviest...Although she's surrounded by a loving family, Marie is lonely. The secret she has been carrying for many years is a burden -...

Annie Groves / My Sweet Valentine

 An emotional portrayal of the lives of four women as Valentine's day approaches, in 1941 wartime London`Life brought enough problems and upsets for young hearts, especially young female hearts, without them having to carry the added burden of the...

Rita Bradshaw / Dancing in the Moonlight

 Heartbreak and family loyalty collide in Rita Bradshaw's number one bestselling Dancing in the Moonlight.As her mother lies dying, twelve-year-old Lucy Fallow promises to look after her younger siblings and keep house for her father and two older...

Iris Gower / Act Of Love

 When Ella Burton takes a job as a lowly cleaner at the glamorous Palace theatre in Swansea, she is surprised by how quickly she takes to the job - it's as if she was born for a life in the theatre. Unlike Kathleen, who wants her name in lights,...

Iris Gower / The Oyster Catchers

 Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed cottage on Honey's Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft and lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much older than herself and one of the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives...

Geraldine O'Neill / Aisling Gayle

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...

Catherine Cookson / Heritage of Folly

      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a...